After hearing Fugaku's question, the first thing Sasuke remembered was Obito's reminder. To act low-key, hide his identity, and avoid excessive interference between the two timelines, which might affect this world's future.
Originally, he had scoffed at that. Back then, his mind was filled only with the idea of destroying Konoha, he didn't care about anything else.
But now, after truly seeing his father and Itachi again, he felt the beauty of this world.
In this world, there were still people and things he cherished. Many tragedies hadn't happened yet, and many things could still be avoided.
So, he suddenly somewhat understood Obito's reluctance to wreak havoc in this world.
Because at this moment, he also hesitated.
Should he tell his father the truth about himself? How great was the risk?
If it were someone else, perhaps they'd just bury the secret deep in their heart, but he was Uchiha Sasuke.
Impulsively, he decided to tell the truth, "Father, I awakened this after Itachi died in front of me, after I learned the truth behind the clan's massacre."
Fugaku was stunned. Then he looked at Sasuke with a face full of disbelief, "Just now… what did you call me?"
Sasuke could no longer hold back his tears, "Father, you said that as an Uchiha, one must not cry, but I don't want to endure anymore."
"You always said I couldn't compare to my brother. You always disliked how slowly I improved. But now I've already become a ninja who can stand on his own. I've already proven to you that I'm no longer that useless person who couldn't inherit the glory of the Uchiha clan!"
After speaking, Sasuke rushed forward and hugged Fugaku.
He held his father tightly, greedily savoring the presence and scent of Fugaku.
Although Fugaku had been disappointed in him time and again, although Fugaku had always been strict and scolding, which had created much rebellion in his heart—
But after the night of the clan's extermination, all of that resentment had vanished like smoke.
He just wanted his father to return, to do those things he'd wanted but never dared to do. Like rushing into his father's arms and receiving a kind of fatherly love that was extravagant to him.
His father always felt that this kind of attitude was too weak and never allowed him to behave this way. But he insisted on doing it, regardless of how strict his father's attitude might be. Wasn't this also a kind of extreme toughness?
At this moment, such warmth melted Sasuke's heart, and also melted Uchiha Fugaku's heart.
He forcefully suppressed the many questions in his heart and just let Sasuke cry in his arms, crying like a child.
At this moment, their hearts were connected. A bond of blood made Fugaku suddenly understand. Uchiha Sasuke was his son, the one for whom he'd already chosen a name, but who hadn't yet been born, his second son. [T/N: It is slowly becoming a soap opera]
After a long while, Sasuke finally pulled away from Fugaku's embrace.
Fugaku looked into Uchiha Sasuke's eyes and said, "Sasuke, what exactly happened? Let me see. I need to know the reason."
Sasuke nodded. Under the rotation of the Mangekyō, he had already cast a genjutsu on Fugaku. Fugaku didn't resist and instead entered the dream created by Sasuke willingly.
Then, he saw Sasuke's entire life.
From the strict education he gave Sasuke as a child, to the close relationship between Sasuke and Itachi, to that night. The sky painted blood-red, Itachi massacring the clan, killing himself and Mikoto.
Then Sasuke was consumed by hatred, gradually growing up, graduating from the Ninja Academy, entering Kakashi's Team 7. During the Chūnin Exams, Sasuke was targeted by Orochimaru and branded with the cursed seal. Later, Sasuke met Itachi again.
Young Sasuke, using the strongest jutsu he had learned from Kakashi, Chidori, launched an attack on Itachi.
However, the overwhelming difference in strength allowed Itachi to easily grab Sasuke's hand and beat him down hard.
Afterward, Sasuke's hatred deepened again. He resolutely decided to leave Konoha and joined Orochimaru.
Then, after three years of harsh training, he finally became a strong man and had the final battle with Itachi. In the end, Itachi, dragging his exhausted and sick body, died before him.
Afterward, Sasuke met Obito, who was disguised as Madara. Under Obito's explanation, he understood everything Itachi had done for him. Finally, in pain and hatred, he awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.
After watching Sasuke's entire past played through the genjutsu, Fugaku was in a daze for a long time and finally could only sigh.
So, Sasuke had traveled back through the Dragon Vein from the future. So, in the future, the Uchiha had gone through so much, ultimately leading to the clan's annihilation. So, both Sasuke and Itachi had suffered so much.
Fugaku suddenly no longer wanted to maintain the dignity of a father or the Uchiha clan leader. He looked at Sasuke, his eyes filled with tears, and finally just said, "Sasuke, I'm sorry. You've been through so much. And Itachi, too."
"I was just talking big before. So in the future, Itachi actually made such a choice."
Sasuke looked at Fugaku and asked, "Then, Father, when you were killed by Itachi, what exactly were you feeling?"
Fugaku gave a bitter smile, "I don't know either. But just now, after you showed me the future you experienced, I remembered a dream I had not long ago."
"That dream was exactly the same as the clan extermination night you showed me. At that time, my feelings were complicated. Both painful and gratified, both relieved and devastated."
Sasuke clenched his fists, "So, Father, you didn't approve of Itachi's actions either, but at that time, there was no other choice, right?"
Fugaku nodded, "Maybe so. Itachi was a bit too stubborn, but the Uchiha's situation at that time was indeed very dangerous. At least, Itachi showed powerful strength and kept you alive."
"So, I might blame him, but at the same time, he is truly my pride. He always has been, my pride for life."
Sasuke lowered his gaze and, after hesitating for a moment, still asked, "Father, after knowing everything, what do you plan to do?"
Fugaku's expression grew complicated.
From the Uchiha's standpoint, their entire clan was wiped out by Konoha's upper echelon. Even he couldn't suppress that hatred.
Although they had planned a coup at the time, after all, the coup hadn't happened yet. Wasn't it a bit too cruel to exterminate the entire clan without leaving a single soul?
Besides, wasn't the coup born from too much oppression? Otherwise, the clan members had already adapted to life in Konoha and begun dreaming of protecting the village, how could they easily rebel?
If they had truly wanted to rebel, they would've followed Madara Uchiha when he left. Why wait until now?
'So, Danzo deserved to die.'
However, thinking this far, Fugaku's expression quickly turned strange.
Because at this moment, the biggest culprit behind the Uchiha clan's destruction, Danzo, was already dead. And the one who killed Danzo was someone else.
That person was none other than Uchiha Obito, who, in Sasuke's future world, presented a completely different face.
Even Fugaku hadn't expected that the one he viewed as a peerless genius, top-tier in ability and methods, Obito, would turn so dark in Sasuke's future.
He triggered the Nine-Tails incident, killed Minato and Kushina, developed the terrifying Akatsuki organization completely different from this world's version, and even disrupted the Five Kage Summit and declared war on the entire world.
It seemed… he needed to have a talk with young Obito.
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